Re: Hard drive detection isn't working

2009-08-18 Thread Peter Rooney
Jason, Are you using expert mode? If not, it allows you to more closely observe what each stage in the install is. Is it detecting the hard drives but not allowing you to partition them, or not detecting the hard drives at all? Peter Jason Hsu wrote: As I mentioned before, I'm trying to

Re: Hard drive detection isn't working

2009-08-18 Thread Jason Hsu
I was using install mode, not expert mode. The installer was not detecting my hard drive at all. On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:20:24 -0700 Peter Rooney h...@shaw.ca wrote: Jason, Are you using expert mode? If not, it allows you to more closely observe what each stage in the install is. Is it

Re: Need to wipe/erase hard drive of iBook G4

2009-08-18 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 17 2009, Stefan Monnier wrote: You'll be bette off with dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda, BTW since you can then check the progress via kill -USR1, Well, I really like ddrescue from the gddrescue package for this very reason. The command to use would be ddrescue /dev/urandom /dev/hda. No

Re: Hard drive detection isn't working

2009-08-18 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:15:49PM +0800, Jason Hsu wrote: As I mentioned before, I'm trying to install Debian on an iBook G4 laptop. The installer in the netinst CD refuses to recognize the hard drive. What do I need to do now? Until I can get the installer to recognize the hard

[Solved] Re: Audio, Soundbylayout: how to use it at 24 bits/96 KHz

2009-08-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Benjamin, hi All Thanks, Benjamin, for your response .. On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:26:58AM +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: Hi, Just guessing : for mplayer, I know there is the -srate parameter that can set a forced sampling rate for your sound card. You're right, but I get this switch -